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- Vancouver groups take housing complaint to UN
  Posted by Shemuses from CBC
  Three groups in Vancouver are launching a human rights complaint with the United Nations over the impact of the 2010 Winter Olympics on affordable housing in the Downtown Eastside. Representatives from the Impact on Communities Coalition, the Carnegie Community Action Project and the Pivot Legal Society, speak at a press conference Sunday. Representatives from the Impact on Communities Coalition, the Carnegie Community Action Project and the Pivot Legal Society, speak at a press conference Sunday. (CBC) The complaint is designed to embarrass the Canadian government and draw attention to a lack of social housing in the city's poorest neighbourhood, the groups said Sunday.
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- Homelessness on the rise in Metro Vancouver, says report
  Posted by Shemuses from CBC
  On March 11, volunteers swept through the streets and shelters of Greater Vancouver, and identified and interviewed nearly 2,600 people considered homeless. In raw numbers, that represents a 19 per cent increase in the number counted in 2005, and more than double the number counted in 2002.
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- Shock and Tasers in New Orleans
  Posted by Shemuses from Alternet
  The shameless exploitation of poor New Orleans residents to privatize public infrastructure is being enforced by violence and tasers.
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- Violent Protest Over Housing in New Orleans
  Posted by Shemuses from New York Times
  After protesters clashed violently with the police inside and outside the New Orleans City Council chambers on Thursday, the council voted unanimously to allow the federal government to demolish 4,500 apartments in the four biggest public housing projects in the city.
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- Troubling News from New Orleans: Protesters Tazed and Sprayed
  Posted by Shemuses
  This troubling AP news report tells us that New Orleans' residents and activists were sprayed and tazed earlier today, as they tried to enter the office of the City Council that is deciding the fate of their housing.
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- New Orleans Police Attack Demolition Protest
  Posted by Shemuses
  Despite the attack on New Orleans culture made evident by the recent arrest of traditional jazz funeral procession band players, the city’s residents took to the streets in true New Orleans style to peacefully demonstrate against plans to demolish four public housing units. Watch this horrifying video of what happened when the residents organized a protest against the destruction of their community.
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- High Noon in New Orleans: The Bulldozers Are Ready
  Posted by Shemuses from New York Times
  Ever since it took over the public housing projects of New Orleans more than a decade ago, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been itching to tear them down.
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skye60 comments on:
Seven Solutions to Homelessness

You can use it but please use the email address. Thanks, J. Kristiansen

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5:34 am 7/03/07
skye60 comments on:
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Sorry but I’ve quit using Outlook Express.

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8:25 am 6/14/07

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Shemuses
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Jodie lives, plays, and blogs in Vancouver, BC. Her day job at ONE/Northwest puts her talents to work supporting social change strategies for greening our world.
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